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Speculating About Gmail
rjelks writes "The Register is running an article about Google's new email service that was mentioned earlier,
here. The story details the new privacy concerns about Gmail's privacy policy and Google's tracking habits. The policy states that Google will not guarantee the deletion of emails that are archived even if you cancel your account. 'The contents of your Gmail account also are stored and maintained on Google servers in order to provide the service. Indeed, residual copies of email may remain on our systems, even after you have deleted them from your mailbox or after the termination of your account.'" Reader cpfeifer writes "Rich Skrenta (founder of ODP, and Topix) speculates in his blog that the real product Google is creating isn't web search or email, but a massively scalable, distributed computing platform. 'It's a distributed computing platform that can manage web-scale datasets on 100,000 node server clusters. It includes a petabyte, distributed, fault tolerant filesystem, distributed RPC code, probably network shared memory and process migration. And a datacenter management system which lets a handful of ops engineers effectively run 100,000 servers.' If he's right, the question isn't what product will Google announce next, but what product will they not be able to announce?"
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I don't know all about this... but still... the news is from the 1st of April, Aprils Fool Day... Unless I see that service working at full speed I'll have doughts about that... :|
+4 Interesting?!?!?!?!? I think slashdot needs to rethink it's moderation system.
Google was founded in 1996 so how could they have sold computers to nazis? Hitler committed suicide in 1945. Since the founders of google were in college in 1996, that would have made them really old college kids.
Moderators can be really stupid sometimes. -1 troll for the parent post would have been a lot better